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Chapter 18 - What?

A baby is born on a cold winter's day, it cries and squirms but calms down after being held in it's father's arms, there is a long and silent car ride home with music in the background, the baby is rocked in it's mother's arms after being released from the hospital days later, it feels warmth, it feels happy.

Upon arriving home, the doorstep in covered in snow as the sound of boots digging into the snow is heard by the baby, a snowflake drops on it's nose and it starts sobbing again in it's mothers arms, the mother struggles to maintain balance and nearly drops the baby but manages to steady herself, "Phew." They both exclaimed, the father enters the keys into the door of the house and the baby sees it's new home for the first time, it felt warm in the house, like it's mother.

After three years the baby learned to walk, the babies parents rejoiced at their accomplishment and decided to have hold it's birthday party later that day, one day ahead of schedule, it had carrot cake which the baby enjoyed eating, it got it's face full of cake, literally.

"The dining room is filled with warmth and laughter, I love it." The baby unconsciously felt strange and nearly choked on the cake which alerted the parents who quickly took action to try and help it, the baby started sobbing again.

After the baby turned five years old, it went on it's first day to a kindergarten, the child didn't do much on the first day, only introducing themselves and learning about kindergarten, the parents were excited on the child's first day of school and arrived at the school at the end of the day with a big smile on their faces, they decided to celebrate by eating carrot cake.

After being at kindergarten for a year, the child was spoken to and formed a small group of friends, they played together at the playground often and even went on field trips together every now and then, with the supervision of their parents of course.

When the time came for Elementary to end, the child experienced it's first graduation ceremony and the first time it felt loneliness after all of the child's friends had left for different schools each, the parents cheered up the child, "You can make more next time!" The parents were struggling to convince the child of it, but eventually got him to go back to his chipper self.

After reaching their new school, the kid didn't make any friends in the first month, but got to make some friends after meeting with new people from another class, he had one friend in the same class who's name was Nanami, she was a cute girl who sat next to him in class and they'd become friends after helping each other on multiple occasions, she was a lively and joyful person like the child so they got along well with each other.

The small group of kids got together to go on a field trip with their parents in tow, they would go to a mall and go around shopping to see what they wanted to buy, the parents agreed to go and would even buy them one gift of anything they wanted.

As they children ran around the mall yelling, the parents got them to settle down as they all chatted with each other in a nearby restaurant, they talked about their kids and discussed many subjects as well, such as their job and how it was like in their job, one of them was even a teacher at the school the children were in.

As every kid would at the mall, they collectively agreed to go to the toy store to buy a toy, Nanami had also followed them on the trip and her and the kid went together to see the toys at the furthest wall from the entrance.

They saw a toy gun, a yoyo and a car, the boy decided to pick the toy gun and Nanami took the yoyo, after purchasing it, they went outside as the parents sat down on benches as they watched the kids play with their new toys, they pretended to be playing as cops that were catching robbers for awhile until it got late and they all went to eat dinner at the same restaurant they were at earlier.

Nanami and the boy both sat next to each other and talked about how good the food was the whole time, "Hey, I haven't actually heard your name yet, what is it?" The boy looked at her and he swallowed his food, "Asahi." He said, "Got it!" Nanami replied with a smile.

As they all left and went their separate ways, Nanami and Asahi both parted ways with each other and went back home in their parents cars, it was already late at night, so Asahi's parents only asked if he enjoyed the trip to which he replied, "Of course I did!" He went up to his room to brush his teeth, take a shower and go to bed, after laying on his bed, he slowly falls asleep, in the middle of the night, the boy suddenly wakes up with in a cold sweat, he feels like he just had a very long dream, his face feels hot all over as he rushes to get out of his bed and go to his bathroom, he takes a look into the mirror.

"What?"